AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Jennings Bryan, Silver Standard, State Ownership
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They had many problems such as dry climates, droughts, extremely cold winters and blizzards, and shipping problems. Baum believed that is economic success was determined the privileged elite, such as the eastern bankers, who intentionally made the farmers fail. This sparked his views for populism: goals for forming the populist party. Unlimited coinage of silver to increase the money supply. Public ownership of railroads by the u. s. government. Loans and federal warehouses for farmers to enable them to stabilize prices for their crops. They ran for the presidency and united many parties. Attempting to form a political alliance between poor whites and poor blacks. All stated in number 3, however it was mainly for the issue of adding silver to the gold standard so the u. s. economy could grow. Baum makes ka(cid:374)sas look terri(cid:271)le (cid:271)y des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)i(cid:374)g is as (cid:862)a(cid:374)gry(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)grayly i(cid:373)perso(cid:374)al. (cid:863) he makes kansas look even worse by putting it up against a rich, luscious, wonderful, oz.
